Shean More

15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Shean More, from 3,201 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres) to 271,989 m² (27.2 ha, 67.21 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Shean More in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 10 Sept 2025Conditional

  A)proposed part single and part two storey extension to the north of existing dwelling house to include minor alterations B) from new vehicular entrance C) New treatment unit ,private well and associated site works

  Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 25132

• 6 Aug 2024Refused

  to erect a part single-storey / part dormer dwelling house, detached domestic double garage, on-site wastewater treatment system bored well, entrance and all associated site works

  Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 24175

• 10 May 2022Conditional

  Permission to construct an extension onto an existing domestic garage for use as a private gym and domestic garage for storage of cars. This domestic garage is for private use only ancillary to the enjoyment of the existing dwelling.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 22/5065

• 18 Sept 2020Conditional

  Construction of calf house and associated works

  Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 20666

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Shean More.

Recorded monuments

• WA028-001 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Located towards the top of the N-facing slope of a broad E-W ridge. References to Shean More date from the 15th century, but references to the Fitzgerald castle date with certainty to 1580 when it was burned by the Earl of Ormond. It was forfeited by Maurice Fitzgerald in 1584 after the Desmond Rebellion when it was granted to Sir Walter Raleigh who leased the castle to Thomas Colthurst, but by 1598 it was occupied by a Mr Duff (O'Connell Redmond 1918, 62, 64). It was let to a Thomas Jackson in 1640 (Simington 1942, 5). This is a rectangular tower (ext. dims. 12.65m E-W; 9.7m N-S) surviving to the first floor with a base-batter and quoins, although most of the quoins have been robbed-out. A rectangular doorway (Wth 1.3m) towards the E end of the N wall, with only the chamfered lintel survivng, leads directly to the ground floor (int. dims. 7.45m E-W; 5.5m N-S) which has embrasures in the N, S and E walls. There is a round-headed doorway, largely robbed, directly overhead on the first floor. A mural chamber at the S end of the W wall has a single gun-loop. The loft over the ground floor, which was supported on corbels in the N and S walls, has an E-W wicker-centered vault overhead and a light in the W wall. Access to the loft was probably by a trapdoor from the ground-floor chamber. A mural stairs in the N ingoing of the E embrasure rise in the E and N walls with two gun-loops to the first floor which had embrasures in the E, W and S walls, and a fireplace (destroyed) in the S wall. A garderobe chute from a higher level is broken out at the E end of the S wall, and the N and S walls have three surviving corbels each to support the ceiling. A low doorway at the N end of the W wall leads through a lintelled passage to the well-preserved bartizan or machicolated structure at the NW angle, which has chambers projecting over the N and W walls, with three gun loops in each chamber. A rectangular enclosure (dims. 40m E-W; 33m N-S) to the N defined by low scarps may represent a bawn. O'Connell-Redmond, G. (1918) The castles of north-east Cork and near its borders. JCHAS 24, 1-6, 62-6, 93-103, 145-51. Simington, R. C. (ed.) (1942) The Civil Survey AD 1654-1656, vi, the County of Waterford. Irish Manuscripts Commission. Dublin. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Waterford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Revised by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 26 July 2011

• WA028-001001 Bawn
  Description

  Located towards the top of the N-facing slope of a broad E-W ridge. A rectangular enclosure (dims. 40m E-W; 33m N-S) defined by low scarps, to the N of tower house (WA028-001----) may represent the remains of an earthwork bawn. Compiled by: Michael Moore. Date of upload: 26 July 2011

• WA028-005 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on top of a broad hill overloooking the valley of the W-E Bride river, which is to the S. This is an overgrown subcircular area (dims. 46m E-W; 39m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (at N: Wth 2.5-3m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1m) with an external stone-facing. The possible entrance is a a gap (Wth 3.2m) at E, but there is no visible fosse. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Waterford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Revised by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 26 July 2011

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Shean More.

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).

Radon

At the centre of the townland of Shean More, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Shean More.

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

No address of the register names Shean More with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Waterford.

Name

Shean More · An Sián Mór

Area

1,694,639 m² (169.46 ha, 418.75 acres)

Civil parish

Lismore and Mocollop, and its townlands

Barony

Coshmore and Coshbride

Electoral division

Castlerichard, the unit of the census

Census 2022

494 people lived in 178 households in the Castlerichard electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 20% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyduff Upper, Belvidere (Co. Cork), Carrigeenhill (Co. Cork), Coolydoody, Coolydoody North, Coolydoody South, Glenatore Upper (Co. Cork), Kilcoran South (Co. Cork), Shean (Co. Cork), Shean Beg, Tober

Placenames

Shean More on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address. Old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.